𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰃

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *biti- (“to write”), itself generally thought to be borrowed from Middle Chinese 筆 (MC pit, “writing brush”). Cognate to Old Uyghur [script needed] (biti-, “to write”), Karakhanid [script needed] (biti-, “to write”), Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (biti-, “to be destined”). See also Mongolian бичих (bičix, “to write”), a Turkic borrowing.

𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰃 (biti-)

1. (transitive) to write, to inscribe
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 67

     𐰉𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰀:𐰍𐰆𐰺𐰆:𐰾𐰓𐰯:𐰲𐰢𐰔:𐰃𐰾𐰃𐰏:𐰽𐰭𐰆𐰣:𐰃𐱅𐰀𐰲𐰸:𐰇𐰲𐰇𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰃𐰓𐰢

     burua:ɣuru:ešidip:éčimiz:isig:saŋun:itačuq:üčün:bitidim

     ...after having listened to the burua guru ( i.e. the spiritual master of presage), wrote (this book) for our affectionate big brother General Itachuk.

• 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰏 (bitig, “writing”)
• 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰃𐱅 (bitit-, “to make write”)

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “biti-”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 316
• Tekin, Talât (1993) “biti-”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 52
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “biti-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 299